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Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth: Report Card 18

In a time of general prosperity, more than 69 million children live in poverty in some of the world’s richest countries. Poverty is most often defined by income. But for most children, poverty is about more than just money. It is about growing up in a home without enough heat or nutritious food. Poverty means no new clothes, no telephone and no money for a birthday celebration. These deprivations have consequences that can last a lifetime. Research shows that children in poor families are less likely to complete a good education.1 In some countries, the research indicates that life is eight to nine years shorter for a child born in a poor area than a child born in wealthy area. Ending child poverty and its consequences is a matter of basic rights and justice.

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Attitudes to Inequality after Ten Years of Transition

Innocenti Working Papers

Attitudes to Inequality after Ten Years of Transition

AUTHOR(S)
Gerry Redmond; Sylke Schnepf; Marc Suhrcke

Published: 2002 Innocenti Working Papers

This paper compares people’s attitudes to inequality at the end of the 1990s the qualities they perceive are needed to get ahead, the role of government and rewards for employment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western countries. Data (from the 1999 International Social Survey Programme) suggest that overall, people in CEE express substantially more ‘egalitarian’ attitudes than those in the West, even after 10 years of economic adjustment to the market economy. The research produces important messages for policymakers, underlining the degree of support for public action concerning redistribution and warning them of the extent to which inequalities are felt in society, especially those that are perceived to be generated by ‘unfair’ means.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 40 | Thematic area: Countries in Transition | Tags: adjustment policies, economic development, economic planning, economic transition, social inequality | Publisher: IRC

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From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, controversy, convergence, consensus?

AUTHOR(S)
Giovanni Andrea Cornia; Gerald K. Helleiner

Published: 1994 Innocenti Publications

The economic crisis in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s generated fierce debate among analysts and policy-makers concerning its causes and appropriate ways out of it. This volume addresses the key policy issues in structural adjustment in Africa. Among the policies addressed are those in the spheres of agriculture, trade, exchange rates, privatization, investment, social sectors, external relations and democratization.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 420 | Thematic area: Economic Development | Tags: adjustment policies, agricultural development, democratization, economic development, exchange rate, privatization, trade | Publisher: Publisher MacMillan UK ; UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From stagnation and adjustment to human development. Summary

Innocenti Publications

Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From stagnation and adjustment to human development. Summary

AUTHOR(S)
John de St. Jorre; Giovanni Andrea Cornia; Rolf van der Hoeven

Published: 1992 Innocenti Publications

This study begins with an overview of the unique set of factors which paved the way towards Africa's economic, social and political crisis of unprecedented and paralysing proportions. A review of the programmes implemented - with little or no success - during the 1980s, mostly with International Moonetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank assistance, to lift Africa out of the stranglehold of poverty points to the urgent need for an alternative development strategy. The last part of this publication examines the components of such a strategy.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 64 | Thematic area: Economic Development | Tags: adjustment policies, economic recovery | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Innocenti Publications

Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From stagnation and adjustment to human development

AUTHOR(S)
John de St. Jorre; Giovanni Andrea Cornia; Rolf van der Hoeven

Published: 1992 Innocenti Publications

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 375 | Thematic area: Economic Development | Tags: adjustment policies, economic recovery | Publisher: Macmillan, UK; UNICEF ICDC, Florence

L'Afrique vers la reprise économique - Résumé

Innocenti Publications

L'Afrique vers la reprise économique - Résumé

AUTHOR(S)
John de St. Jorre; Giovanni Andrea Cornia; Rolf van der Hoeven

Published: 1992 Innocenti Publications

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 68 | Thematic area: Economic Development | Tags: adjustment policies, economic development | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

External Debt, Fiscal Drainage and Child Welfare: Trends and policy proposals

Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series

External Debt, Fiscal Drainage and Child Welfare: Trends and policy proposals

AUTHOR(S)
Stephany Griffith-Jones

Published: 1992 Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 40 | Thematic area: Economic Development | Tags: adjustment policies, child welfare, economic aid, external debt, fiscal policy | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence